Redditors who grew up with strict parents, what was the craziest rule or punishment you had to deal with?

When I was in first grade, I had a writing homework assignment.

My dad used to be weird about me erasing because he wanted me to do it right the first time.

I ended up erasing a lot on this homework, and my dad took the paper from me, ripped it in half, and told me to start over.

Turns out, it was the last sheet of paper

in the entire house. And I don't remember why, but for some reason we couldn't go and buy more

paper that night. So, ironically, I ended up having to completely erase an old homework assignment

in order to have a sheet of paper to start over on. I'm 22 now and still give him crap about this. How is starting

over on a new piece of paper any different than erasing what you were already doing? I don't really

understand the logic on this one. The word disgusting was banned and could have been considered

just as bad as saying the F word. We weren't allowed to close doors unless we were in the bathroom.

We weren't allowed to watch Cartoon Network because it was garbage. They actually put a

parental lock on Cartoon Network. The worst punishment was one time they decided that we were

such bad kids, my sister was like 14 and I was 12-ish, that they took everything we owned

and banged it up into garbage bags and made us carry them out to a burn pile that they took everything we owned and banged it up into garbage bags and

made us carry them out to a burn pile and they burnt everything we owned. All of my childhood

memorabilia, pictures, clothes, diaries, everything. All of it burnt. It was kind of messed up. When it was

done burning, the next day or so later, my sister and I looked through the ashes, and all that was left

were two silver rings of hers that we cleaned off and kept.

It was kind of crazy.

I once got beaten and locked in the basement because my hands were literally not large enough

to play a certain piano piece.

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